St Alban's Church, Holborn
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| 51°31′10.7724″N 0°6′38.1744″W / 51.519659000°N 0.110604000°WCoordinates: 51°31′10.7724″N 0°6′38.1744″W / 51.519659000°N 0.110604000°W | |
| Location | Holborn, London |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Anglo-Catholic |
| Website | stalbansholborn |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Alban |
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| Status | Active |
| Functional status | Parish church |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* listed |
| Designated | 1951 |
| Architect(s) | William Butterfield |
| Style | Neo-Gothic |
| Years built | 1861–1862 |
| Administration | |
| Archdeaconry | Hampstead |
| Episcopal area | Edmonton |
| Diocese | London |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | The Rt Revd Jonathan Baker (AEO) |
| Vicar(s) | Fr Christopher Smith |
| Assistant priest(s) | Fr Ronald Corp |
| Curate(s) | Fr Guy Willis |
St Alban's Church, Holborn is a Church of England parish church in Holborn, central London. It has been Grade II* listed since 1951.
William Henry, 2nd Baron Leigh gave the site for the church. It was built with funds from John Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington, and designed by William Butterfield in 1859. Construction occurred between 1861 and 1862 in yellow and red stock bricks with stone dressings and tiled roofs. In 1862 Alexander Mackonochie became its first perpetual curate. He introduced a daily Eucharist, which featured Gregorian chant and significant ritual elements (e.g. the lighting of altar candles and the cleansing of eucharistic vessels at the altar). St Alban's was the first Anglican church to hold the three-hour devotion on Good Friday (in 1864) and one of the first to celebrate a Harvest Festival. Mackonochie also openly heard confessions. Mackonochie's pastoral ministry was typical of the 19th-century ritualist "slum priest". With his two curates, Arthur Stanton (who remained at the church until his death in 1913) and Edward Russell, and lay assistants he founded schools, soup kitchens, a working men's club, mothers' meetings, clothing funds and more. Though he remained until 1882 and remained as an assistant priest after that date, he became known as "the martyr of St Alban's" for regular Low Church prosecutions against his support for ritualism.
In 1891 a chapel was added to designs by Charles Henry Money Mileham (1837–1917), with the chapel's stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe added in 1898 – it now also contains two Stations of the Cross by Ninian Comper. The 1890s also saw the future bishop Hensley Henson (then vicar of St Margaret's Church, Barking) frequently visiting St Alban's as a guest preacher.
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